Williams, who is also black, saw that recruiting poster and said to himself, “I’d really like to know who that is and someday I’d really like to join Force Recon,” Williams said in a 2018 documentary about Capers, titled “Major Capers: The Legend of Team Broadminded.” He is also possibly the first black Marine to receive a battlefield commission in the Vietnam War. (Marine Corps)Ĭapers is likely the first black Marine featured prominently on a Marine Corps recruiting poster. was the first prominently featured black Marine on a Marine Corps recruiting poster. Those three plaques were titled “The Place, The Legend, The Man.” The middle plaque is a reproduction of a famous recruiting poster where Capers at the center in his blue dress uniform above the words “Ask a Marine.”
The other details Capers career of heroics. One plaque is a map of North and South Vietnam. The now 83-year-old Capers was recently celebrated by the Bishopville, South Carolina, community with the installation of three bronze plaques.Ĭapers lived in Bishopville, South Carolina, as a child but his sharecropper family left the Jim Crow-era South for life in Baltimore, where he spent the rest of his youth. Paul Lefebvre, former Marine Special Operations Command chief, said at that ceremony that Capers was, “one of history’s most outstanding special operations team leaders.” There’s ample evidence that the harrowing mission had its fair share of valor, and Capers was at the center of the action.Īt the same 2010 ceremony where Capers received his Silver Star Medal, fellow team members Ron Yerman, Richard Crepeau, John Moran and Billy Ray Smith each were awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” for actions during the same mission. military contractor and retired Army Green Beret, who died following an after hours altercation outside a nightclub in Iraq.Ĭapers award push is an effort to see that the major gets the credit he is due and ensure that internal politics didn’t play a role in the four-decade delay and selection of the Silver Star Medal, Gurfein said. Matthew Golsteyn, who was facing much-delayed charges in connection with an alleged murder in Afghanistan in 2010.Ĭurrently, a high-profile case that they are seeking to have charges dismissed involves two Marine Raiders and a Raider corpsman charged in the death of a U.S. The group also supported Army Green Beret Maj. Clint Lorance, who was pardoned in 2019 by President Donald Trump after serving prison time on murder charges stemming from actions in Afghanistan. The United American Patriots group has gained attention in recent years for its advocacy on behalf of military members and veterans charged in criminal cases.
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